WHY MEN DO NOT MARRY. Among the many bright i'eniurcs ot tim "Strand" is a symposium on the above subjeot. The contributors are, *"»Vo'muto"cofitvll5uto'r%7' iucruUtng'Oii-no-ri ..Hor^loy and- Arthur. Bonrcliier, :tbnt.Ji:, ■ S!vo placeto "tho ops ill ons"( (J A Til 11: u r h ' Clara I3ntt and AI rs. C. N. William sou'; both of whom aro happily married. "To a very largo extent," writes Mad ame Butt. "1 think the decline in the marriage rate is duo to the differ ent standpoint the younger generation take of life as compared with the standpoint of their grandfathers and grandmothers. The younger genera tion havo larger ideas, more ambitious ambitions than wore those with which their fathers and mothers started life. "When tliev think of the struggles their fathers ' have told thorn about their early married life, how they pinched and saved and screwed, and denied themselves almost the ordinary necessaries of life to provide their chil dren with the means to proouro a good education, a...

HACKING COUiJH '• for ahout two years my soil Krio had a nasty harking cough," says Mrs Albert- \V. Coleman, "Cuiamba," Moncur-strc'et, i Dul wieli Hill, N.S.tY. "Then I gave liiin Chamberlain's Cough .Remedy, and after'a"" few doses noticed he had greatly improved. lVfpra we had given him the whole bottle his cough had completely disappeared.' He is now strong and well and gaining weight daily."

DAY IN A BUTTER FACTORY. CBy Lacto.) Daylight is .'filtering through thefwin- j doirs of the "batch" when the silebco i is broken. by the whirring of an alarm I clooki The unginoer, whoso clock c is,; bestirs himself, -and I follow -him across j the stretch of ground that sep arates tho bachelors' quarters from the factory. Wo enter tho. engineroom, and .---while he is busy. With the gas producer and-engine I glance around. ■Everything, is spiok and span. Along the.length of the room are ranged gas engine, steam engine, and two ref rigor-' atqys. The adjoining room houses tho 'gas-producer -plant stud the , steam boiler. Tho engineer has finished at the fan,-'and, after'-giving, the. engine a. few revolutions with the aid. of com pi'essod air, it is soon running steadily with the gas. lit a little while the refrigerators, are spinning merrily. . Tho' daj's; work.has begun. ,1, loavo. tho engineer to it, and walk into the butter-room'.' It is it spacious and loftv room, spotlessly cl...

THE TYROLEAN FRUiT CASF.. A HERMAN METHOD 01&amp;lt;' PACK IXC Ai'l'LES. i!y .). G. Turner (Cliioi' .HnrtiiriiKun"! | Officer), in "Journal of Asrionl- J lure." } About the 11th October last. a. cable gram appeared in the daily press, which read as follows:— AUSTRALIAN MIT IT. Gorman Market. Packing Methods Criticised, llcrr Henoch, of Berlin, in a. re port to tho Commonwealth Govern ment, states that the importation of Australian apples and pears into Germany is greatly prejudiced, be cause the fruit is wrongly packed. Merchants who re-pack the fruit in a looser and more attractive way wore making 25 per cent, addi tional profit owing to tho altera tion. Tho fruit marketed in Gev ■many is rapidly extendi 112, and is attracting buyers from llussia, Scandinavia, and adjacent ooun tries. Herr Henocli oilers to for ward sample cases to Australia packed in tho Gorman .style, should the fruit-growers wish it. Lniraediatoly alter the appearance of this cable a suggestion was made , by...

POULTRY PICKINGS. Tho latest ttiirig'in trap, nests was on view "sit the recent Crystal Palace Show in London. It was claimed for it that it was the only perfect automatic trap nest on tire market. . When the hen J enters, the nest the cntmncoi door re mains op&amp;lt;*n. Upon tho heir laying an egg the action of the egg rolling down -closes tho entrance door and opens the exit door . Tlui lieu is then .tree to 'walk out. When the hen leaves the nest her."action, in doing so closes the exit door and 'at the same time opens Ike: entrance door, leaving the ■ nesi. free for the next.bird to enter. lite working of the b'ox is quite automatic. Should the hen not' lay an egg she is free to walk out the wav she entered, Without being trapped Such is the description, but at this distance we ask what happens if two or more hans crowd ill. at onco? •. In order to test the eatmg capacity of the average hen, a number ot. ex haustive experiments were earned out at the Maino Experimomal Stati...

OF RURAL INTEREST (Bj "Kiisticus.") The. action of ilia Minister of Lands and tho Minister of Agriculture in the direction of taking stops to "cheek * tlio' inroads of &amp;lt;tko pest known. as St. John's Wort in the BeockwoiTh And Uriglit'districts is timely and necessary. \ cryr targe 'ureas-,of valuable, country are being devastated. In order to cope with the pest and hold-, it in eiieck, the Ministers'- have -deoided , to ask the oo-operation'of the ihunicipali ties' concerned in first of all ascertain ing the actual area infected, whether it is privately held, or .is on pu'b lio roads or Oroivn lands. Immedi ately the information from the muni cipalities "is received oflioers will bo sent up to complete tlio investiga tion as to the infected area. At tlio same time,, officers of the Agricultu ral department will bo told off to in vestigate and report on the proper re medies to be adopted. On receipt ol all iho information the two Mimslors will -submit recommendations to th...

WHY PILLOWS ARE HARMFUL ! "You are only one out of millions,"; said .1 West find physician to . inoi _;{writcs a contributor to a Loudon ~p.ipor)'when i cijuiplaiiied that 'my' n loot's sleep seldom proved completely resotrative. "Very few people know how to sleep properly. Almost cvWy . newakes 'one iiirstnlco or another with regard to lied, hidclotlies, or pii.ows, ' and some of these mistakes have seri ous consequences. Take the old-fash oind bolster surmounted by a pillow, .>.• what is almost as bad, one pi.tow oil ip of another. . Some people I know use even- threq pillows. AV/licn one lies on the back suoli an arraujfgm&amp;it' tips up the head, compressing the blood and lymphatic vessels of the. neck, and preventing ; tile roCiini oil ' waste matters from the - brain-. Thq -brain lies all night in a_ bath Vil'"iierve-: poisou, and nd wonder- it is ,hoa vy and, dull in the morning.' But worse still,' this attitudo :promotes ' spinal : curva turel- In the case of young m...

WOMAN CONDEMNS SMOKING. "I haven't much patience with the people who object to. smoking, because it is 'unladylike,' " (says a London writer.); "Cycling for women was 'unladylike' not very long ago; so was the wearing of tailormade coats and skirts! For a" good many years, tho 'nice girl' never wattzod. . Sho oaly danced polkas, quadrilles, and so on, and loft waltzing to the kind of poo pie who did bunny hugs and turkey irots a season or two buck. What vou call 'unladylike' reallv deponds very nnlif.la ..i.,i,il • wl.lol,:you woro, i'lie writer men goes ..on to state, her real reason tor disliking smoking, because when strong men wish to got. into tlie pink ot condition—boxers, toot ballers, and forth-—they"nosrily always give up smoking. .".Well, 1 think they.^oughL to kn/w what: they are doiug. I think tiiatVa habit whichr, confossoly, doesn't'help to build up the organism of a football cldtinpioii is more than likely to do downright harm -to'.tlio infinitely' more delicate struc...

IS ROMANCE POSSIBLE NOW? ' Miss ii. Tennyson Jesse, the author of- "The Milky Way," a novel, much read in England just now, gave an answor to an interviowcr, the answer of the best type of modern woman, denying that romance should bo sou lined merely to love iff its narrow sense. "Why," said she, "surely this country that has produced Hying is us romantic as any there has been." But the interviewer persisted1 in regarding the word as firmly linked with "love." Itomanco, as implying glamour, how ever, Miss Jessie hates. "Glamour 'admits no faults, it illusion.- It idealises a man, and when the fact-is .realised that there arc heaps of shortcomings in him love Hies, for it was given to somebody who never existed. "The twentieth century is analytical and "not romantic in love," continued Miss Tennyson Jesse, and a good thing, too. It saves itself so many bluudeis and so much pain. 1 wish, the prenup tial period were made less of in a girl's mind by her elders than it is. Why should a g...

PRESIDENT WILSON'S WIFE VISITS SLUMS. With characteristic- thoroughness and indopcudonce, Sirs. Wilson, wife of Pre sidout Wilson, and hor daughter, have paid a visit to the slums of Washing ton to so for themselves the conditions in which some of the poorest, and many of tho worst elements of .tho peo ple, exist. They found these conditions so bad that they took back to the f'residout a very grave roport. Jn consequenco the President is supporting a Bill by which it is^ intended to clear _ away t.lio■ worst.. years. Now and tvidc streets arc-to;,bo made through the districts which are at present centres where diseases', 'im morality, and crime are'raiupant.

Should Dyspeptics Diet ? . v\ - .A-' specialists valuable ' ADVICE.. "Dyspepsia, 'indigestion, .flatu lence, and practically all forms of stomach trouble," writes, a.leading 'specialist, " are'dn nearly every, in stance the direct result of food fermentation and the consequent production in the stomach of acid and gas which irritate and distend the stornach and make normal di gestion impossible. The gas, by distending the stomach and press ing upon the surrounding vital organs, seriously interferes with cause "if 'irritates,'"'their "inflames" and even ulcerates the delicate lin ing of the stomach, producing dangerous stomach ulcers and even cancer. Food fermentation being primarily responsible for all the trouble, it was long the custom of physicians tg -permit the use of only-sucii foods as could not-fer ment, biit unfortunately unlermeuti able foods "were" soon found Ho. be so lacking ;.iu nutrition - asHo result: in partial starvation. and rapid loss of strength and vitality. In...

DANGERS OF WHITE BREAD. I.);-. Alonteuuis has issued a work, '\\ .no Bread: Its Dangers and the Remedy, Natural Bread." The work is the beginning of a campaign in r'rai.eo against white bread. The book, dovolops the idea that white broad is a scientific error, and consequently a source of- ruin. iVcfcsor Leiulle, ' in his impressive preface,' points out Unit the study of this great problem of our timo. is the duty of everyone, for it is a question of national health and fortune. Exact analyses aiid figures, soientific data on the role of illiberal?;,' soluble ferments, and "the value of liv ing corn explain how while broad is an improtant factor, not only of constipa tion, appendioitis, and maladies of the digestive track, but of alcoholism, tu berculosis, in a word, of tho .degenera tion of tho race.

Boort Co-operative Butter and Ice Co. Ltd. ELECTRIC LIGHTING frCIJEME. A meeting cf the directors'cf the -above; company was -held in the company's office 011 Thursday last, when, there were present—.Messrs It. Weaver, .J. Dyer, J. Weaver. C. Sutton, D. Rollinson and Griffiths. Mr Sutton moved, Mr Rollinson seconded, that the balance of last half-ye.tr ,£189 17s Od, be carried forward.—Carried. The minutes, with this motion added, were confirmed.. The shares held by Messrs Thomas and John Stanyer were transferred to Mr John Stanyer, and from Mr W. Barclay to Mr Job Weaver, on the motion of Messrs Dyer and Rollinson. The secretary7 was instriYcted to endeavor to collect some outstand ing accounts, and to notify de faulters that unless the amount be paid within fourteen days the amounts will be handed over to their solicitor for collection. Acc-lints amounting to £113 10s were passed for payment. Three applications were received for the'position of consulting and electrical engineer d...

HOUSEHOLD HINTS. :A cure fur "huts of. all kinds, cock roaches, and any other pes is that in vade the panty, - is green walnuts I'hicc in-the closets, cupboards, ormiv place ivhore they are likely to .he. .•The cure is effectual and the remedy .clean. When you" clean the ebony brushes on your toilet table, rub a little vase line nnr the backs before you wash the bristles, as this prevents the soda or anmninia in the water from injuring /the ebony. The vaseline should after : wards be removed by polishing the backs with a dry.cloth. / To?clean muck-soiled bands do not go to work, roughly/ with brush and soda water," but loosen the dirt by"-rubbing tlic hands well with sweet oil, or even lard or dripping. Then wipe off the greaseva.s much as possible with a piece of soft paper or old rag, and" wash the hands with warm water and soap. To make toast on a gas-ring, get a null round of wire auuzo and place .over* the ring. It will get rod hot, and bread can be toasted with a, fork over ; ...

SPORTS AT BOORT A sports meeting was held at Boort show grounds on Wednes- ! day, when a successful gathering was held. The committee of the local State school inaugurated the meeting for the purpose ot raising funds towards the erection of a building for a higher elementary school, towards which a good sum has already b.eeu promised. Such a structure, it was pointed out at the concert in the evening by the chairmau, Mr J. Weaver, would cost between L400 and 1,500, and it was their ambition to raise this amount. The day was a beautiful one for such an outing, but it was rather late in the seson, as all the farmers, from whom a lot of sup port was expected, are engaged in sowing or in preparing their land* for next year's crop. and . under the circumstances could not con veniently attend. There was a fair attendance, however, and a fair amount should be netted. The Boort Fire Brigade Band, under the leadership of Mr W. -J. Clements, was in attendance, and rendered a uumber of selecti...

ijteok ce;,mo r e d u a l-p urpose. THo ilual purpose ghost will not down, iiii.j yet -for all its bobbing up here and there and gibbering, it is nothing (jiore than a ghost.' It is a half-way propo sition where none but hall'-way dairy fanners will care to stop ami lose timo and money. A recent number of the "Texas Stockman and farmer" con tains a contribution from Mr. B. O. Cowan, in which"the author contro verts some of the'statements and reas oning made by "Hoard's Dairyman'' "m one of its recent utterances upon this subject. Most of Mr. Cowan's article is a. re-hash of ancient history, but he occasionally makes a concrete .state ment. Like all other advocates of this delusion, lie completely ignores the two basic objections to the theory:—(1) That it is a subversion of true breed ing principles to attempt to unite pro litably two such opposing tempera ments as the milk tempcrament and mo beef temperament'; (2) that the produc tion of such cattle is uneconomic, so far at least a...

THE CONCERT. A splendid programme was pro vided in the Mechanics' Hall in the evening, and it was one of the best witnessed in Boort for a long time. Prior to '.lie concert several selec tions were played by the band in front of the hdll. There was a fair attendance. Mrs 1). Chalmers has a nice contralto voice, and her sing ing and received was much appre ciated. She was heartily applalided for all three of her items, and she can always look forward to a warm reception in Bobrt. The old Boort favorites, Misses Kirkwoo.l and Lacy, and Messrs Elliott, Cameron and Pickering, all did well, and received warm recognition. Items by the children were pleasingly rendered. \V. Sinclair made a hit as a reciter. .Mr Jetlery rendered a sea song in good style, but de clined an encore. • An amusing item by Messrs Pickering and Kramer was heartily applauded: Mokano, the handcuff king, .again i astonished the audience with • the manner in which he got clear from ropes, handcuffs and legirous, and. t...